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Livin' the Life

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:12)

A simple faith in the risen Jesus has become a multi-faceted worldwide organisation, with structures and hierarchies and thousands of different expressions and textures. It is surely not too late to re-evaluate everything we think and do in the name of our Jewish Messiah. This book shows us that there can be another way to live THE LIFE … for those with an open mind and a teachable spirit.

Using tools developed over the last few years in a series of ground-breaking books, the author re-examines a wide spectrum of what we think and how we act as followers of Jesus Christ. To move forwards in our faith, we really need to go back to the very beginning …

240 pages ISBN 978-0-9931910-5-3

Here's an excerpt from a review by Chris Hill:

“It isn’t often these days that I spring to my feet while reading a Christian book and shout, “Praise the `Lord!”, but LIVIN’ THE LIFE has had me up and shouting more than once! Steve Maltz has written this book at the top of his game. All of it is good, some parts are quite brilliant and packed with revelation. The Lord really spoke to me and reached parts that other books have never reached. That’s some claim. Scriptural, lively, amusing and extremely penetrating, CLICK HERE FOR MORE REVIEWS

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When it comes to polemical discussions about Jesus’ messiahship, Messianic Jews are often accused of taking verses from the Hebrew Bible out of context, and deliberately christianising them, so that they appear to refer to the man from Nazareth.

Ironically however, many Christians are going in the other direction, and rejecting the relevance of Hebrew Bible prophecies to Jesus’ life!

Look at this quote from Christianity’s most popular academic theologian, N.T. Wright, from God and the Authority of Scripture Today [emphasis mine]:

Many Christians know their Bible back to front – when they should know it the right way round! David Andrew offers an appreciation of a recent two-part teaching from Chuck and Karen Cohen…

There’s a consistent note of sober purpose here, so don’t expect a snappy title. As it is, the title gets right to the point – and describes exactly what’s in the tin: “Breaking Down the Middle Wall of Partition: Confronting the Man-Made division between the Old and New Testament.”

Now some will be thinking: “This is clearly off-beam right from the title. Surely Jesus has already broken down the wall between Jew and Gentile? Surely Paul used a past tense?” No arguments there – but just because God has done something has never stopped us mortals from disagreeing with Him or revising the ‘truth’ to make it suit our prejudices. The clue to the title is in the ‘man-made division’ . As early as the early church, even Peter needed correction as he unwittingly started to rebuild the wall that Jesus had demolished (Galatians 2:11-21). Our authors are not in denial of Ephesians 2:14. Their argument – entirely dependent on Scriptural support – is that, historically, the Church in general has done a thorough job of rebuilding the wall by creating a false (distorting) division between the doctrine of the apostles and the ‘Old Testament’ writings they used to support their writings! The effect of this is two-fold:

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Ignorance laughs at voters. Do you know the spirituality that drives the EU?

Throughout Europe the media has been dominated by discussion of the huge influx of migrants, some refugees fleeing war and persecution in places such as Syria and Iraq, many from elsewhere, but predominantly from Muslim majority countries. They range at one end of the spectrum from Christians fleeing persecution, to at the other end jihadists such as Ahmed Almuhamed, who blew himself up at the Stade de France during a football game between France and Germany in November, or as we report in this week’s Operation Nehemiah, even IS members directly responsible for persecuting Christians in Syria.

How well does the average American understand basic Christian doctrine? For that matter, how about the average evangelical? Perhaps not all that differently. And perhaps it matters how the questions are asked. Reprising their ground-breaking study from two years ago, LifeWay Research and Ligonier Ministries released an update today on the state of American theology in 2016. Researchers surveyed 3,000 adults to measure their agreement with a set of 47 statements about Christian theology—everything from the divinity of Christ to the nature of salvation to the importance of regular church attendance.